Comments on: Authority Sites – Static Rules – Blogging Can Suck It

By: Splork

Splork — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:26:20 +0000

Use the one you like the best. They are equally useful. I just have better luck building with XSP though I do use WP from time to time. If I did not have XSP I would use WP. I certainly wouldn’t put up sites using NVU. I have better thing to do with my time.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:02:35 +0000

This is where I am stuck-1/2 the people like WP and the other 1/2 does not. I did HTML sites a few years ago using NVU-it did not work very well for me. I think I just need to play around w/ both kinds

By: calgary-seo

calgary-seo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:30:01 +0000

True,XSP is a really useful tool for getting things up fast.For me its a true gem since i have almost 2 to 3 sites coming up each week.however a few more modules would definitely appreciated.

By: Splork

Splork — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:57:36 +0000

Hey Anne. Yea if you are into (heavily) modifying your sites XSP is not for you. I don’t care about how the site looks as long as the info is there and the people that skim over it click an ad. XSP provides that easily.

By: Splork

Splork — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:54:17 +0000

Hey Denise. It is much easier and I seem to make better money with an ugly XSP site and Adsense. I’ll let the free blog sites, and god knows there are a shitload out there, handle the load for feeder type sites.

By: Splork

Splork — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:52:02 +0000

Thanks for reading Alan. I feel your pain. That’s pretty much my story. Unless I have something to say every once in a while, I won’t be creating a blog. For all these niche sites I post up it’s easier on me and the host to simply create a quick XSP site. I do much better with Adsense on XSP sites and basically an ugly template.

By: Alan K

Alan K — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:42:33 +0000

Well, you have managed to get me to post a comment at last Splork. Have been reading your wise words since PLR Pro first started (found you in the PLR Pro forum at the time).

This post struck a chord with me since I also got sucked into the ‘Wordpress is Everything’ mentality a few years ago. Originally, all my sites were built using XSP 1 and used to do well as far as ranking and adsense were concerned.

Going back a while, I had to shift to another host and decided to put all my XSP mini sites under different themed domain names. On each domain (all 13 of them), I put a WP blog on the front end with all the various XSP themed minisites underneath that in sub directories. The idea was to post articles on the blog with links to the various mini sites underneath.

Then, being that Wordpress was the be all and end all (not), I converted some of those XSP sites to WP. In addition, I started a couple new domains and put WP on them as well. The strange thing is that I have known all along that WP wasn’t cutting it as far as adsense was concerned but I still carried on regardless.

Anyway, long story short I am now going through each domain and converting all the WP sites back to static html using XSP 2. Not an easy task since I am having to do it by cutting and pasting each article post from WP to XSP and then 301′ing each article. What I need is some means of bulk exporting posts from WP so that I can bulk import into XSP but haven’t been able to find anything that will do that job.

So, I can tell you from bitter experience that niche blogs just do not work as far as ranking, adsense etc are concerned.

In any case, I can do the same thing with XSP static sites as WP does. Make an RSS feed inside XSP and then submit the feed using RSS Bot. When I post any new articles, RSS Bot also has a ping facility.

I guess we all have to learn the hard way although in my case it has taken a while for the penny to drop. I registered my first domain back in 1996, but still, some fourteen later, I am still figuring out this so called IM thing!!

Alan

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:55:01 +0000

“I like blogs for backlinks and static sites for selling.”

I too like this expression. Being a tech dummy, I am constantly breaking WP blogs. All the constant upgrades and then plug-ins that don’t work, make me so crazy. I just lost some posts on my djnuttall site due to WP nightmares. The only blogging platform that seems to stay the course for me seems to be Blogger.
I do my best to build static XSP sites, but they are the ugliest sites on the internet. But once they are up, the backend is basically done and all I need to do is put fresh content on them and get links. Works for me.